ABOUT THE RELEASE:One of the more interesting pairings of harsh, electronic horror, upstart noise duo Death By A Thousand Cuts team up with CATTLE DECAPITATION vocalist Travis Ryan to transmit an hour of grim, nightmarish drone noise. Travis Ryan's four tracks open the disc with an edgy, paranoid ambience that mixes environmental buzzes and electronic hum with blurry theremin melodies and hushed buzzsaw tones, evoking the faint but discernible hum of electricity you feel when standing at the edge of an urban landscape in the middle of the night. Occasionally Ryan's droning dread lurches into a staticky overload that recalls the chopped up circuit burn of John Wiese, but more often drifts through a halogen-lit dreamworld similar to a grittier, urban take on Glass Throat Records atmospherics.

The other side of this split is haunted by Death By A Thousand Cut's nightmarish free electronic designs. DBATC's industrial hallucinations are conjured from noxious bass sinewaves and cloudy keyboard drones, curling upwards out of metal-on-metal carnage and blasts of laser-beam effects pedal violence, and the music becomes strangely beautiful, especially with the cosmic, Troum-meets-Bastard Noise insectoid frequencies of the final track "Approach Of The Black Claw".

CPR-14: FINAL SOLUTION "All New Power"Re-issue of impossible to find 1990 demo from NYC power electronics legends. FINAL SOLUTION created some of the most raw and intense power electronics ever. They could be compared to "Great White Death" era WHITEHOUSE, but they really emit a hard New York ugliness that only an American-born group could bring.

CPR-14: FINAL SOLUTION "All New Power" cassetteRe-issue of impossible to find 1990 demo from NYC power electronics legends. FINAL SOLUTION created some of the most raw and intense power electronics ever. They could be compared to "Great White Death" era WHITEHOUSE, but they really emit a hard New York ugliness that only an American-born group could bring. Co-released with Hospital Productions. Limited to 100 copies.

Featuring members of CLOUDS, OCTAVE MUSEUM, HYDRONAUT and PET GENIUS, and produced by Stephen Brodsky of CAVE IN and NEW IDEA SOCIETY, "Live! At Club Awesome" is a 11-song STUDIO recording of the band playing live at their rehearsal space.

Boston's Thee Electric Bastards, whose expansive psych-pop falls somewhere in among Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd, the Zeppelin end of the White Stripes catalogue (but only if it was scored by an Elephant Six band), and Yoshimi-type Flaming Lips. And if that seems like an awful lot of territory, well, they cover a hell of a lot of it. With songs about futuristic life (Robots Do Not Rock) blatant machismo (The Peepin' Song, Play The Fool), alcoholism and mental health (Millennium Blues, Black Jets), The Bastards have allowed the listener a peek into their sordid little world, where society's ills and fears are celebrated. All of The Bastards songs are well crafted slices of weirdness, with compelling breaks in the music that are sometimes jarring in effect. It harkens back to the days when rock music was more experimental, and less formulaic.

RIYL: PIXIES, SYD BARRETT, FLAMING LIPS

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CPR-7: TEAM ROBESPIERRE / BREVATOR Split 10"Brooklyn's no-wave Screamers-inspired electro punk band, Team Robespierre, join forces with Albany's doom merchants, Brevator. The best in speed, the best in sludge. Get it while you can. Limited to 500 copies. $9 (postage paid) in the USA.

M. Kourie is the solo ambient project of Nathan Berlinguette, who is also known for his work in Creation Is Crucifixion, 5/5/2000 and his record label, Daft Alliance. This is his debut as a solo artist.

Recorded at Louder Studios in San Francisco by Tim Green (Fucking Champs), THE DREAMS OF M. KOURIE is a compilation of random interpretations of dreams rather than an album with a single theme. Each song was recorded using different techniques at different times.

Most of the foundation work was done using a guitar and a sampler. While M. Kourie was originally conceived as an ambient music project comprised entirely of black metal samples, the idea was jettisoned in favor of original material and sounds. However about 100 black metal samples were used thoughout the album although its impossible to recognize any of them as they are buried in drones.

Also appearing on the album are Tim Green (The Fucking Champs), Tomo and Ryan Unks (Creation Is Crucifixion, Circadia).

Next for M. Kourie is scoring an experimental remake of the classic adult film BEHIND THE GREEN DOOR and touring the US in Fall 2006.